The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 33

He lay on the grass chewing tobacco, when the gazelle trotted up.

Who acts: man, gazelle · What happens: lie, chew, trot up · To what, where: grass, tobacco

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, gazelle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 grass	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
6	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lay	advcl
7	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chewing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trotted	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 trotted	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gazelle	det
11	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trotted	nsubj
12	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 trotted	compound:prt
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lie	past	man		the grass	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location
2	chew	gerund	man not said here	tobacco		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tobacco=Patient
3	trot up	past	the gazelle			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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